Title and Link:
FugueAuthor: Rick R. Reed
Publisher URL:
http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllureGenre: Contemporary, BDSM, gay erotica (M/M)
Length: Extended Amber Kiss (11 K)
Rating:
5 stars out of 5THE BLURBWho is the master and who is the slave?
In
Rick R. Reed?s tortuously sexy short story, you might not always know.
Fugue takes the brave reader into the dungeon playroom of a master and
his boy. It?s the kind of place where ?darkness skitters into corners,
hiding in shadows where the walls disappear.? A boy is chained to the
pipes along the ceiling. Hooded, he can only experience the sensations
his master delivers with his whips, fingers, tongue...
But in
the boy?s mind, a dream state takes him places even the master could
not imagine...places where the established pecking order is turned
upside down. As he?s being deliciously whipped, tantalized, and
tortured, the boy takes a mental journey on a late-night train where
his adventures are even more raw and erotic than what goes on in this
very dungeon.
Come along for the Fugue...and answer for yourself the question: who is the master and who is the slave?
THE REVIEWFugue
begins with a slave awaiting his master in a damp, filthy dungeon, and
the author sets the stage so well that I had no difficulty picturing
the sub chained to pipes, shackled, his naked, freshly shaved body
shivering in anticipation and dread for the the pain he will endure for
love of his Master. This book is made up of layers and aromas, from the
decay and mildew of the roach infested surroundings to the smell of the
leather hood that covers the sub's head and face as his world is thrust
into darkness. I felt what he feels as he escapes the darkness into an
alternate imaginary world, riding the el train in Chicago.
On
the el we meet two men sitting opposite each other, one young, in his
late teens, the other a much older man dressed in leather chaps, boots
and cap; the Leatherman is tall, muscular and has a small tattoo on one
of his biceps - one word: fugue . The men are total opposites, one is
rough, tough and powerful and the other is little more than a boy,
affluent looking, with a lean body and beautiful. Their only companion
in the carriage is an older woman who disembarks at the next stop and
when the men are left alone a metamorphosis takes place as the boy
becomes the Master and the man the sub.
The men explore their
physical attraction in a darkened alcove of the train. Just when things
are getting hotter and they are about to embark on a new, more sexual
journey the train stops at the next station at the worst possible
moment and our would-be lovers have to hide both their presence,
frustration and what they had been doing as a young couple enters the
carriage. They hope for deliverance from their unwelcome companions and
hold their breath; their prayers are answered as the couple leave at
the next stop.
The intensity is maintained throughout the story
as our lovers continue their train journey which turns into a wild ride
in a scenario that's as sexy as any I have ever read. In both the
dungeon scene between the young sub and his Master and on the train
there is no let up as the author generously takes us along with him.
This
is the second Rick R. Reed book that I have read and I was struck by
his delightful prose and spectacular world building as he weaves these
two tales on parallel tracks - one is pure imagery and escapism through
the mind of the sub as he turns his situation around 180 degrees and
becomes the Master, and the other story is more traditional as the
slave submits to
his Master.
Fugue
is perhaps more reality than most of us will ever want to experience.
There is not a lot of dialogue, and it's more a sensuous and deeply
emotional ride as the slave invites us along. Mr. Reed is an
exceptional writer who provided me with an experience that's not just
another well written tale. His writing style is unique and he paints
pictures of different hues with words, and his worlds are so detailed
that you live them.
Fugue is
not
a love story even though the boy loves his Master, what it is, is an
adventure into eroticism that is emotionally and physically intense
both on the train and in the BDSM sequences, and the train is as much
part of the story as the well drawn, three dimensional characters, as
it stops at different stations and the protagonists wait with bated
breath to see if someone will join them.
The word "fugue" is
defined as a work of music with many "voices" based on a single melody,
repeated in various ways and Rick R. Reed's book of the same name is a
lesson in how to strike the right notes at varying intervals to
increase the intensity in a different type of performance
